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f h • Jim Pales said that he felt the City ' s response ought to be to the Redwood Shores area. ,, not a particular landowner , whether it is Mobil or ABC or whoever . The City should have a policy th-s.t sticks and is going to be one that could apply to anybody . Concerning the density ty bonus idea. , he said , it was easier to see how that would work in a newly developing area :1.i1>e Redwood Shores . But how would it wort, on an individual site basis in other parts of the City? And would allowing nigher densities inherently limit the other things that, make the quality of 1:i. fe high, C1eati_11( a situation where :Low/moderate- income families would not get amenities ? Lou Knowles suggested that perhaps the question was whether or not the basic zoning is a:1.ready too high . • Kent Sebrobter.• w;trned against the illusion that Redwood Shores is the '`frontier " of . new housing in Redwood City . More housing is developed on the other side of the Bayshore than in Redwood Shores , he said , both now and replacement housing . Eileen Gray said that she thought Lou Knowles was saying that the HCC should approach developers in a firm manner about getting low/moderate - income housing and that his proposes) s are just one way to do so . . . . . Mary Henderson asked where the County housing element had got to . Dave Ransom said that he had called , the Board of. Supervisors and found that it had not yet made its way onto their agenda. . . Kathy Mahaney said that she was concerned at its getting lost and asked what could be done . Mary Henderson said she would make inquiries with some of the supervisors and the new planning director . She suggested that he be invited to an upcoming HCC meeting . Mary Henderson thanked Lou Knowles for coming in with his "thoughtful proposal" timed at "just the right moment . " She requested that staff make a summary of the meeting with the apartment owners at the next HCC meeting . She suggested that the news announcing the next meeting inform those absent that this meeting had lacked a quorum . The study session adjourned . at 8 : 20 A .M. The next meeting of the Housing Concerns Committee will be September 13 , 1972 . • • MINUTES HOUSING CONCERNS COMMITTEE AUGUST 22 , 1972 . PAGE 5 OF 5 •